Re: tilde shortcut
Re: tilde shortcut
- Subject: Re: tilde shortcut
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:51:25 -0400
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
> Tilde is a shell thing, not an AppleScript thing. Inside a "do shell
> script" command string, unquoted "~" by itself expands to the value of
> the "HOME" environment variable, which the system initially sets to
> the user's home directory, while ' "~"+ & username ' expands to the
> home directory of the named user according to directory services.
That is, ~username. I started to write that, then converted to '"~" +
username', then thought I'd turn it into AS string concatenation
syntax, and did so incompletely, and got a mess.
Anyway, upshot: just use 'path to documents folder from user domain'
from AS, and forget about tildes unless you're writing shell scripts.
:)
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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